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Barbara retired from The Walt Disney Company in early 2018, where she was the Director of Strategy and Engagement for Enterprise Benefits. In this position, she led the strategic initiatives, and her team designed benefits programs that identified and addressed Disney’s long-term healthcare and retirement goals and objectives.

Prior to joining Disney, Barbara spent close to 30 years in senior management positions with two international benefit consulting firms, and served as a Principal with Arthur Andersen, where she ran the West Regional Human Capital practice.

Barbara is a national speaker on topics such as hospital/physician/employer relations, effective managed care models and provider reimbursement models, wellness, and incentives and has published articles in Pension&Investments, Business Insurance, and specialty health care journals about the value of managed care. Much of her work has involved helping employers and providers create more effective, direct partnerships. Upon retiring, she served as the Chair of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), one of the largest and most established employer coalitions of ‘jumbo’ employers in the country, and remains an active member of the Employer Healthcare Innovation Roundtable, a group of select employers that evaluate various venture capital portfolios. Barbara created a ‘strategy lab’ at Disney, which sponsored start-ups in the healthcare space, three of which are pilots providing services to Disney cast members. She is also a board member of the American Board of Medical Specialties.

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An expert in hearing loss in older adults, Barbara E. Weinstein earned her Ph.D. in audiology with a minor in geriatrics from Columbia University. Weinstein has authored several textbooks, the most recent being Geriatric Audiology (2012). The author of close to one hundred articles and book chapters, she speaks nationally and internationally on a wide range of topics ranging from social isolation and hearing loss in the elderly, to senile dementia and hearing loss, to hearing aids and hearing health promotion and screening. She is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), an Oyer Fellow, and a recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award for the New York State Speech Language Hearing Association. She served as a panelist on the National Institutes of Health consensus panel on cochlear implants.

Weinstein developed the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly and its companion version, the Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults, the most widely used scales to screen adults and older adults for hearing loss, as well as to measure outcomes. She is the recipient of local, state, and federal grants in excess of $750,000 on aging, workforce education, counseling older adults, and outreach.

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Kim Cavitt, AuD, owner of Audiology Resources, graduated with her master’s degree in audiology from Indiana University and her AuD from Salus University. She worked as a clinical audiologist and preceptor at The Ohio State and Northwestern Universities and as the Director of Professional Relations at HearPO (Known now as Amplifon Hearing Services).
Since 2001, Dr. Cavitt has operated her own audiology consulting firm, Audiology Resources, providing comprehensive practice management, operations and reimbursement consulting services to hearing healthcare clinics, providers, organizations, buying groups, and manufacturers who want to be better equipped to compete in the managed care and health care areas, especially in this age of industry disruption.
Throughout her career, Dr. Cavitt has been actively involved in issues related to all aspects of audiology practice operations, management, coding, billing, third-party reimbursement, compliance, pricing, and managed care issues. She has authored numerous articles and provided hundreds of presentations and training opportunities at both the state and national levels on these topics. Dr. Cavitt is a past president of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) and the chair of the state of Illinois Speech Pathology and Audiology Licensure Board and a board member of the Illinois Academy of Audiology. She serves on committees through ADA and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is a senior contributor to Audiology Online and Audiology Practices.
She is the married mother of one daughter and is actively involved in her community. Dr. Cavitt is an avid fan of her beloved Indiana Hoosiers and Chicago Cubs, and she also enjoys craft beer, bourbon, good food, travel, and spending time in her adopted hometown of Chicago.

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Greg Cumiskey, a highly successful executive and entrepreneur, has extensive experience in implementing roll-ups, acquiring and selling private businesses, executive management of private and publicly traded companies, venture capital investment and private equity buyouts. He has served as a Director to public and private companies and is currently an active advisor and investor in numerous corporations in the United States and Canada.

Greg most recently served as Executive Chairman of ExamWorks Canada. Founded in 2008, ExamWorks grew annual revenue to $2B and completed over 80 global acquisitions. It is the world leader in Independent Medical Examinations with operations in the USA, Canada, UK and Australia. It was a NYSE listed company prior to being acquired and taken private by Leonard Green & Partners in 2016.

Greg is on the Advisory Board of Idealab New York Inc. and IdealabX Venture Fund. Idealab NY is a sister company to Idealab Studio, founded by prolific entrepreneur Bill Gross, with over 150 startups and 45 successful exits.

Greg previously served as Founder, CEO & Executive Chairman of Direct IME Corp., an industry leader in the medical assessment space, successfully acquired by ExamWorks.

Greg also was Co-Founder, President & on the Board of Directors of Seats 3D (Ballena Technologies Inc.). Seats 3D partners with NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR & NCAA teams, becoming the market leader in sports and entertainment venue visualizations and integrated ticketing sales. It was successfully acquired by Spectra of Comcast Spectacor.

Greg was also Co-Founder & President of Simmba Systems LLC, California's leading provider of records storage and information management solutions for businesses, hospitals and government agencies. It was successfully acquired and merged into GRM Information Management, Inc.

Greg completed his MBA at Pepperdine University, Executive Education at Wharton Business School, Executive Entrepreneur Program at California State University East Bay, and Undergraduate Degree at the University of Western Ontario.

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Andrew is the founder of AuraFuturity, a go-to-market and branding consultancy in the hearing, hearables, and broader communications spaces, with previous experience in international sales, marketing, product management, and general management. Audio has been both of abiding interest and a market he served professionally throughout his career. Andrew has been deeply embedded in the hearables space since the beginning and is recognized as a thought leader in the convergence of hearables and hearing health. He has been a strong advocate for hearing care innovation and accessibility, work made more personal when he faced his own hearing loss and sought treatment.

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Bunny is a Harvard-trained, award-winning healthcare leader, entrepreneur and influencer who has dedicated her career to driving change and innovation in healthcare. Successful across entrepreneurial, corporate, and academic settings, she is highly regarded for her industry expertise and extensive network.

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Dr. Peter Lee, Amazon’s Former Global Medical Director, now Chief Executive Officer of Work Health Solutions, providers of concierge-style occupational medicine for large-scale employers nationwide. Prior to Amazon, Dr. Lee practiced in a clinical setting, functioned as Medical Director for Boston Medical Center and served as Chief Medical Officer for the General Electric company.

Tim Arnold has been the President and CEO of Colonial Life since January 2015. Before that, he held several leadership positions at Colonial Life, including Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Chief Operations Officer. Arnold joined Colonial Life in 2011 after working at Unum for 27 years, where he held leadership roles in underwriting, corporate planning, client services, and national accounts sales and benefits.

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Dr. Fagelson’s clinical and academic teaching centers on courses covering hearing science, audiologic evaluation, pathologies of the auditory system, and tinnitus management. He is a member of the British Tinnitus Association, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the American Academy of Audiology, the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiologists, and the Tennessee Academy of Audiology.

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